PODDP 98--CALL FOR PAPERS

International Workshop on Principles of Digital Document Processing

March 29--30, 1998

Saint Malo, France

PODDP 98 is the fourth in a series of international workshops that
provide forums to discuss the modeling of systems that process
digital documents using theories and techniques from, for example,
computer science, mathematics, and psychology. PODDP 98 will take
place in conjunction with the EP 98 Conference at the Palais des
Congres, Saint Malo, France, which is held from April 1--3, 1998.
(PODDP 98 is, however, a workshop and
not a conference.) The workshop will be held on two days, Sunday,
March 29 and Monday, March 30, 1998.

The charter of PODDP is deliberately ambitious and its scope broad.
Indeed, we have added the adjective ``Digital'' to the series title
to reflect the workshop's emphasis on multimedia documents.
The current state of digital document systems can be characterized
as a plethora of tools without a clear articulation of unifying
principles and underlying concepts. The practical and commercial
impact of these tools --- editors and formatters for many media (text,
graphics, video, audio, animation) , composition systems, digital
libraries, WWW, word processing systems, structured editors, document
management systems --- is too pervasive and obvious to require further
elaboration and emphasis.

With the rapid development in hardware technology (processors, memory,
and high bandwidth networks), however, the notion of a document and of
document processing itself is undergoing a profound change. The
growing use of multimedia has expanded our notions about content,
scale, and dynamicity of documents. To address these changes, we hope
to bring to bear theories and techniques developed by researchers in
other areas of science, mathematics, engineering and the humanities
(such as databases, formal specification languages and methodologies,
optimization, workflow analysis, and user interface design.)

PODDP is organized to promote a happy marriage between theories and
techniques of digital documents and the systems that process them.
PODDP provides an ideal opportunity for discussion and information
exchange between researchers who are grappling with problems in ANY
area relating to digital documents.

We invite researchers to submit papers that attempt to find a good
balance between theory and practice. Papers should not exceed ten
pages in length.

One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present the
paper at the workshop. Presentations will last about 25 minutes with
some time for questions.

We intend to produce the proceedings as a volume in the
Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, as was
done with the proceedings of PODP 96. Papers from PODP 92 and PODP 94
were published in special issues of the journal ``Mathematical and
Computer Modelling'' (Pergamon Press).

TOPICS

Major topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Automatic Generation of Documents

Digital Libraries

Digital Publishing Issues

Document Compilers

Document Databases

Document Dissemination

Document Management

Document Mining

Document Presentation

Document Recognition

Document Query Languages

Document Standards

Document Transformation

DSSSL

Hypertext and Hypermedia

HyTime

Information Retrieval

Intelligent Documents

Multimedia Documents

Multimedia Editing Systems

SGML, HTML, and XML

Theories of Documents

Theories of Media and Multimedia

World Wide Web

PAPER SUBMISSION

You are invited to submit SIX copies of a detailed abstract or a
complete paper by December 12, 1997 to either program co-chair:

Each submission should have a cover page, which indicates the name,
affiliation, address, electronic mail address, and telephone number of
the contact author. Submission by e-mail (to nicholas@cs.umbc.edu or
to dwood@cs.ust.hk) is acceptable. In this case the paper should be
in ASCII, LaTeX, or Postscript (in the latter case, it is crucial that
there are line breaks).

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline: Friday, December 12, 1997

Notification of Acceptance: Monday, February 2, 1998

Copy Due for Preliminary Proceedings: Friday, February 27, 1998

PODDP 98 Workshop: Sunday--Monday, March 29--30, 1998

Final Version Due for Proceedings: Friday, May 1, 1998

Camera-Ready Proceedings to Publisher: Monday, June 1, 1998

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

The program committee consists of researchers who are active in the
area of digital documents, and researchers who are active in
relevant areas of computer science, such as databases, and are
interested in documents.

Howard Blair(USA)

Heather Brown(UK)

Anne Brueggemann-Klein(Germany)

Norbert Fuhr(Germany)

Richard Furuta(USA)

Heikki Mannila(Finland)

Ethan Munson(USA)

Makoto Murata(Japan)

Charles Nicholas(USA) Co-Chair

Cecile Roisin(France)

Derick Wood(Hong Kong) Co-Chair

LOCATION

Palais des Congres, Saint Malo, France.

REGISTRATION

The registration procedure will be announced in the call for
participants in January, 1998.

ON-LINE INFORMATION

Further information will be available over the Web at
UMBC and at
HKUST,
and via the PODP mailing list.
To subscribe to PODP, send the message "subscribe PODP" without
quotes, in the body (not the subject line) of an email message to
majordomo@cs.umbc.edu. (As of 10 July, 1997, PODDP is an alias for
PODP with respect to this list.)